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I replanted my peas again. I'd say the Click and Grow couldn't grow peas, but I have an eight inch pea plant who begs to differ. I suspect I am planting too deep or the soil is too moist, so this time I did not use the greenhouse lids.

Had they been in stock when I started I would simply have ordered the Click and Grow pea plant pods. But they weren't. Kelvedon Wonder will have to do. Interestingly I noticed Burpee sells seeds for Peas-in-a-Pot, a ten inch variety.

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There are different basil varieties with various esential oil strengths. Also my experience is that outdoor grown plants that are not coddled perhaps work harder in the flavor department. I had a volunteer Italian parsley in a bed riddled with ivy and nasturtium that was intense and the parsley in a large pampered pot from the garden center was barely flavored

My current theory is that the sunny location of the Click and Grow (south facing glass doors) gets too warm from solar heat gain. Today I started some seeds in moist paper towels and put them in the bedroom, typically the coldest spot in the apartment. If these seeds sprout I will transfer them to the Click and Grow.

Fortunately Kelvedon Wonder is not an exotic variety and I have plenty of peas to play with.

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@JoNorvelleWalker The timing issue Margaret discussed was not to start the seeds too earlly if they are headed for outdoor transplant. If you have vigorous seedlings and then they stay inside ffor too long because your frost is not over then you get spindly wimpy transplants. Of course with the bizarre weather y'all are experiencing itt is hard to predict when that will be. Also top watering can get you damping off even in sterile pots. Benn and done that drama in the greenhouse.

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Spindly wimpy plants has nothing to do with staying indoors, it's mainly due to a lack of light. So, it's because of staying indoors with inadequate lighting. This may have been true 20 years ago, but with today's lighting, not necessarily so.

Personally, I would never sprout seeds in soil, I don't care how "sterilized" it claims to be. I either start in paper towels or a 1.5" cube of rockwool. If possible, adjust the pH of the soaking liquid for either the paper towel or rockwool to about 5.5

Tomatoes, for example, aren't going to do anything serious until the soil temperature hits 60 at root depth, and they'll do even better when the temperature hits 65 degrees—above that, they'll take off like a rocket.

Having the seeds germinated and ready to go, as tiny seedlings, when the soil temperature hits 60 degrees is enough.

One year, I sat out some very tiny Matt's Wild Cherry seedlings on the 26th of June—that's considered very late around here, especially for such tiny seedlings.

This was back when I was stacking cages made from concrete reinforcing wire as supports for tomatoes and other stuff.

The plants reached 15 to 18 feet before they were killed by frost!

Leggy (or spindly) plants can be caused by not only insufficient light, but also too much heat as well as fertilizer issues.

Having said that, having leggy tomato plants isn't the end of the world—just pinch off the lower leaves and trench plant them—they'll develop roots along the trenched stem.

But, you've created much more work for yourself than is necessary if you've reached the point of having to worry about leggy plants.